We put the tiny ones in the back seat to keep them safe and forget they are there. Wouldn't it be safer to have them in the front seat, so you don't forget them?
I don't know anyone who has ever forgotten they had a kid in the car. I just don't get this. How do you forget your child? Even in the back seat?
Some smart person needs to come up with a carseat alarm. If there is a baby in the carseat, door opens, and an alarm goes off. Baby care for dummies.
I wonder what the relative risks are. Anecdotally, it seems many more babies are dying in the back seat of hot cars than have ever been killed by an airbag in the front seat.
It's like the safety Nazis demanding babies on airplanes be strapped into safety seats instead of carried on Mom's lap. The number of babies that could ever be saved by such a policy is dwarfed by the number who will now die in car wrecks because their parents can't afford to pay for a separate airline seat.
-ccm